Word: dye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese rank of captain, is pronounced dye wee by Americans and used to designate anyone in charge of anything...
Working with natural essences or synthetic replacements, industrial perfumers have also solved the problem of charcoal briquettes that don't smell like hickory and finished furs that don't smell like mink. Without help, shoes nowadays smell more like adhesives, rubber soles and dye than leather; many manufacturers have taken to deodorizing footwear, then spraying on a compound that smells the way shoes are supposed to smell...
Headlight Trouble. Next, Boggs and Dixie headed for Las Vegas, where she helped him dye his blond hair a reddish-brown. Deciding that they didn't have enough money to get married after all, they began driving aimlessly, headed for Utah, where Boggs bought gas on the outskirts of St. George with a credit card belonging to Victim Willis...
...detection methods is echoencephalography, working on the same principle as sonar. When sound waves are bounced in and out of the head and converted into a light pattern, the neurologist can see whether the brain has been shoved to one side by blood or a clot. Injections of radiopaque dye also help X rays to show whether arteries have been displaced or damaged enough to deprive part of the brain of its blood supply. Even using these techniques, doctors do not always discover everything...
...call the craze an "insult to the noble sport." But the police have not yet found any law to prevent it. About the only sufferers seem to be the carp, which bear the scale scars of many a near miss, and have to swim through water mixed with a dye to make it look deep. The fish are tiny -3 in. to 10 in. long-but some parlors compensate by renting out bamboo poles so flimsy that they often snap in two when a fish is hooked. Some observers have linked the fishing fad to Japan's recent economic...